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| The 2016 UK-Debate New Years Honours List | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 30 2016, 06:40 PM (252 Views) | |
| Steve K | Dec 30 2016, 06:40 PM Post #1 |
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Well the official list will come out tomorrow but who do we think should get an honour? Simple rules: name up to 5 living people for an honour and up to 5 you want to not get one. Anyone with at least two nominations and a net positive rating makes our honours list. And the more net positive the higher the honours in the eventual list (will Nigel get that knighthood?). Cut off Monday 7pm |
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| Lewis | Dec 30 2016, 07:34 PM Post #2 |
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I know 1 person who should get a negative knighthood and that is Phillip Green, who ripped off BHS and its pensioners. It's about time I got my OBE for services to UK debating. No seriously, I would like to see more hard working ordinary people for their devotion to duty and those who help worthy causes. I have had enough of troughers like Scameron and Giddie who no doubt get gongs either now or next summer. Ones worthy of merit include Paula Wilson of the British Diabetic Association (BDA), Paul Scales of the Church Lawton School and Dr Susan Rattray (psychologist). All people I have had the pleasure to meet and work with. |
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| Steve K | Dec 30 2016, 08:05 PM Post #3 |
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Pauline Cafferkey for putting her life on the line fighting Ebola Yes Andy Murray for beating Johnny Foreigner so often Sergeant Stuart Pearson a war hero who ran the London Marathon (and other deeds) for veterans charities with his one remaining leg Lynn Faulds-Wood and Prof Phil Scraton for turning down official honours and respectively for their services to cancer care and Hillsborough campaigning |
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| johnofgwent | Dec 31 2016, 12:11 AM Post #4 |
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It .. It is GREEN !!
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Frankly, I was in full agreement with that guy all the way to the last paragraph of his rejection letter. The way he starts out his rejection letter is magnificent. His choice of words to describe those who used inaction to great effect in thwarting the efforts of the people seeking to establish the truth deserves an awardin itself. Then he proves that's all bollox by saying actually he rejects the honour because he hates the idea of a british empire |
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| Affa | Dec 31 2016, 12:40 AM Post #5 |
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David Icke Pat Condell Ken Clarke Frank Field Russell Brand |
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| Rich | Dec 31 2016, 12:42 AM Post #6 |
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Sorry Jog, but here I must agree with him, in this day and age there is no place for Empires, the world has become too small for any such aspirations as each nation struggles to hang on to it's ancestral culture and characteristic traits of which no doubt, they have much pride in......pride enough to fight to the death for it. However, I would sooner give the award to the MP Andy Burnham for bringing the matter to such a degree that it could no longer be ignored by the state and had to be put under the microscope of the general public. For my money, he achieved two things, he brought the matter out into the open but more importantly he forced the South Yorkshire police force to examine it's principles and to put every other police force on warning that it is best to tell the truth from the outset. |
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| RoofGardener | Dec 31 2016, 10:01 AM Post #7 |
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Nigel Farage.... for perseverance. |
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| Rich | Dec 31 2016, 11:25 AM Post #8 |
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And even more so for forcing the government of the day into a corner and having to face up to their paymasters concerns......think I'm joking?..........guess what? .......a Brexit is on the way brought about by a democratic decision resulting from a free and fair electoral decision made by a majority of the voting electorate. However many may dislike him it cannot be refuted that he has had a very big impact upon the direction of the UK. |
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| Affa | Dec 31 2016, 11:45 AM Post #9 |
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The nones: David Cameron George Osborne Ed Miliband Boris Johnson Nigel Farage |
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| Steve K | Dec 31 2016, 11:57 AM Post #10 |
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So far only Farage meets the at least two nominations and a net positive rating criteria |
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| Steve K | Dec 31 2016, 12:12 PM Post #11 |
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But what has he done since 2012? And impressive and politically brave though his contribution was it is hard not to make the point it was only after that "justice for the 96" humiliation at Anfield in 2009 that just about brought him to tears. 60 seconds that changed so much, a painful but poignant watch from about 1 minute in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3mBIi084Q |
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| Rich | Dec 31 2016, 01:47 PM Post #12 |
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I would like to add : Sturgeon Corbyn E Milliband. K clarke Clegg. And collectively....the SNP. Hope you don't mind Affa.
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| Affa | Dec 31 2016, 02:21 PM Post #13 |
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I only object to you including KC, who for me was head and shoulders above his predecessors (honoured), and remains honourable where most of his contemporaries are not. Edited by Affa, Dec 31 2016, 02:22 PM.
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| Rich | Dec 31 2016, 02:49 PM Post #14 |
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Sorry mate, but Clarke is unwilling to move with the times and listen to popular opinion......he only sees things from HIS perspective especially with regard to the EU and even now, at this moment will not admit that things are better than he himself was forecasting. But I will agree that he is an honourable chap. Edited by Rich, Dec 31 2016, 02:50 PM.
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| marybrown | Dec 31 2016, 03:05 PM Post #15 |
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You forgot Tony (war monger) Blair..
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| Steve K | Dec 31 2016, 03:28 PM Post #16 |
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A non gong to Mark Lowcock who has accepted a knighthood for spending £12B on foreign aid without ever being able to show it's well spent and wasting all those millions on that unusable airport while trousering £165k a year |
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| Rich | Dec 31 2016, 07:38 PM Post #17 |
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Well, below is a quote from him in todays DM. "(there is now) a settled view.... people don't want to debate whether we should do development or not.I worry much less than I used to about having to make the case" One wonders what the ever so efficient Priti Patel will make of that. |
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| Alberich | Jan 1 2017, 12:18 PM Post #18 |
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Who cares? The entire system of "honours" is anachronistic and should be done away with...entirely! |
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| Steve K | Jan 1 2017, 12:22 PM Post #19 |
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Which is why the OP is about OUR list |
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| Alberich | Jan 2 2017, 02:47 PM Post #20 |
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You asked us....." Simple rules: name up to 5 living people for an honour and up to 5 you want to not get one" I suggested the system should be abolished, but you don't see a connection? Even a tiny one? |
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| Rich | Jan 2 2017, 02:51 PM Post #21 |
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It would seem to me that it is far easier to decide who should NOT get an "honour" than it is to name 5 that should. What does that tell us? I am applying this year for an apprenticeship into hairdressing and mainly for those at the top end of society.
Edited by Rich, Jan 2 2017, 02:53 PM.
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| Steve K | Jan 2 2017, 03:05 PM Post #22 |
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Just for that Farage goes on my no list. Na na na-nah na |
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| Steve K | Jan 2 2017, 07:14 PM Post #23 |
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Well on the defined rules no one gets a gong from us. However: Consolation CDMs (Cadbury's Dairy Milks) to the following for being net positive (all +1): Paula Wilson Paul Scales Susan Rattray Pauline Cafferkey Andy Murray Stuart Pearson Lynn Faulds-Wood Phil Scraton David Icke Pat Condell Frank Field Russell Brand Andy Burnham Something off the bottom of my shoe award for most net negative Ed Milliband (-2) Rotting Turnip award for just being net negative Phillip Green David Cameron George Osborne Boris Johnson Nicola Sturgeon Jeremy Corbyn Nick Clegg Tony Blair Mark Lowcock Also mentioned (net rating of zero) Nigel Farage (+2-2 = 0) Ken Clarke (+1-1 = 0) |
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| Rich | Jan 2 2017, 07:19 PM Post #24 |
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I do so love statistical evidence.
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| Curious Cdn | Jan 2 2017, 08:28 PM Post #25 |
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Still no Eric Clapton, eh? |
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| Cymru | Jan 3 2017, 12:35 PM Post #26 |
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WARNING! Strong language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9IZyx_-Os |
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| Steve K | Jan 3 2017, 12:55 PM Post #27 |
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He always had questionable values but that was definitely going to delay any gong - by about 500 years. Still a stunning guitarist and a good singer. |
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| Rich | Jan 4 2017, 11:48 PM Post #28 |
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So how come he did not get a Nobel prize instead of the lesser talented Dylan? |
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| Steve K | Jan 5 2017, 07:10 PM Post #29 |
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Because Dylan is a far far more talented writer and the prize was for writing. Seemples |
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| Rich | Jan 5 2017, 07:13 PM Post #30 |
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Just as well that I am not on the Nobel panel then as he would not even have been on the suggestion list for my money.......once again, nothing more than subjective opinions. |
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